On Wed, 02 Nov 2005, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com> writes:
> > [[[
> > Add truncate_diff_lines feature to mailer.py hook script. If this
> > is set to a non-zero value, then diffs longer than the specified
> > number of lines will be truncated in email messages.
>
> "truncate_diff_lines" sounds like you're chopping characters off the
> ends of long lines, not chopping lines off the end of a long diff.
> Suggest "truncate_diff".
Fine.
> I'm somewhat ambivalent about this feature addition, but do have one
> concern: I'd prefer it if the act of truncating a diff would cause an
> application of that diff data as a patch to fail in some noticable
> way. In a sea of 100 diffs in a single email, it'd be really easy to
> miss a single instance of a truncated one -- what happens to the poor
> guy that tries to apply that email as a patch and succeeds because the
> truncation happened to line up with a hunk boundary?
I'll investigate making "patch" fail in a noticeable way.
This feature is intended for use in cases where the email is read by
people who want to receive a 10-line diff when somebody makes a small
change, but don't want to receive a 1000-line mail message when somebody
creates a new 1000-line file, or when somebody makes many changes
throughout a large file. If you are sending mail to an automated
process, or to people who will want to treat the mail as a patch to be
applied, then you shouldn't be using this feature.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
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